In a society where adolescents engaging in sexual activity are on the rise, it is important to be open-minded about the education and care these adolescents receive regarding to sex education. Two options for these adolescents are abstinence education and providing contraceptives to minors. Each of these methods receives a backlash due to ethical reasoning. Parents don't want to hear that their children are being taught about contraceptives and have access to them, while critics of abstinence-only education believe it is not effective in itself. effective, many advocate introducing broader education that considers abstinence as a way to avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), but also includes information on contraceptives and condoms (Alford, 2007, para. 1 ). In two separate polls conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, National Public Radio, Harvard University, the National Women's Law Center, and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, each received similar results: 85 percent of Americans believe that schools they should teach a comprehensive sex education program. Along with the 93% of Americans who want young people to wait for sexual activity until marriage, 99% want programs to include information about sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. Another 83% want students to learn to wear condoms (Alford, 2007, para. 9). Based on information and statistics decrying the effectiveness of abstinence-only education, the author believes that students and adolescents should have better access to abstinence-only contraceptives. As established by the Fourteenth Amendment, an adolescent has the right to access contraceptives. Furthermore, the adolescent contract... at the center of the paper... is a standard for sexual behavior. According to this standard, teenagers who do not follow those same cultures and religions are forced to comply with education. In reality, the average age for sexual activity is 17, and the average age for marriage is 25.8 for women and 27.4 for men (Alford, 2007, para. 16). Another important counterargument is the possibility that access to contraceptives makes adolescents more likely to engage in sexual behavior. Although this theory can be easily confirmed, there is no medical evidence to suggest an increase in adolescent sexual behavior (Lu, 2010, para. 17). Works Cited http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/publications-az/597 -astinenza-solo-fino-al-marriage-programs-ineffective-unethical-and-poor-public-healthhttp://www.americanbar. org/content/dam/aba/migrated/family/lawstudents/2010schwab1_lu.authcheckdam.pdf